探索药用植物学实践教学改革提升中药学专业“识药”能力

Exploring practical teaching reform of pharmaceutical botany course and improving students' ability of herb recognition in Chinese pharmacy specialty

药用植物学是中药专业实践性很强的核心基础课程。为激发学生兴趣,人才培养方案修订中将药用植物学课程前置;为加强实践能力,由传统的一门药用植物学划分出理论、实验及见习3个模块;为提升教学效果,创立了实地实物教学法,并全过程融入到教学环节中。课程组积极整合教学资源,构建了课内与课外,校内与校外的"识药"能力培养体系,引导学生逐步建立了整体观的识药思维,取得了初步成效。

Pharmaceutical botany is a core basic course with strong practicality in Chinese medicine specialty. To stimulate students＇ interest, the course of pharmaceutical botany has been put forth in personnel training program revision. To strengthen practical ability, traditional course of pharmaceutical botany has been divided into three courses including theory, experiment and novitiate. To promote teaching efficacy, field and object teaching methods have been set up and put into overall teaching process. The team of pharmaceutical botany course has integrated teaching resources actively, constructed curricular and extracurricular and on-campus and off-campus cultivation system for the ability of herb recognition, guided students to develop consciousness of herb recognition, and gotten initial achievements.